Rostechnadzor keeps looking into NLMK accident

Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (member of Evraz Group) keeps working on its four-year oxygen converter upgrading project, the spokesperson for Evraz Group said to UrBC. The shop’s steelmaking converter has been shut down for the time being, as the unit is to undergo some thorough reconstruction. Everything is to be completed within seventy-five days, with 1,500 experts and workers taking part in the process. In the meantime, the shop itself will keep operating as usual. The better part of the new machinery has already been delivered, and the company’s workers have assembled the main

Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Works (NLMK) section iron division’s enterprises, which were united under OOO NLMK-Sort’s management in December 2009, produced 1.7 million tons of steel in 2009. This was 11% less than in 2008. Also, the enterprises sold 1 million tons of reinforcing bar to their customers, which was 5.7% less than in the year 2008. On the other hand, the sales of wire rod were up 1.2% last year compared to the year before and amounted to 68,000 tons. The sales of metal products also increased by 29% in 2009 compared to 2008, reaching 188,000 tons. However, the amount of steel

The Ural division of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental, technological, and nuclear safety watchdog) carried out an investigation and detected that the fatal accident at Kalyinskaya mine (SUBR-Stroy, Sverdlovsk Region) on January 15, 2010 had been caused by poor mine maintenance, badly organized working space, unsatisfactory arrangement of production processes, and lack of control over technological and production discipline, the spokesperson for the division reports. The fatal accident occurred at Kalyinskaya mine on January 15, 2010. The victim was a forty-five-year-old shaft man. A

Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhny Tagil JSC (part of Evraz Group) has recently put into operation the new overhead converter to be used in the oxygen-converter shop. The converter is meant for fringing metal slabs and needed for full examination of the produce of No 4 continuous casting unit. According to the company’s spokesperson, the converter was designed in the oxygen-converter shop and in the plant engineer administration, even though the contract concerning the construction of the continuous casting unit did not include the converter as the obligatory component of the system.

A fatal accident occurred at Sredneuralsky Copper Smelting Plant on January 8, 2008, says the spokesperson for Ural Federal District’s division of Rostechnadzor (the state technological, environmental, and nuclear safety watchdog). The investigation committee came to the conclusion that the accident had been caused by the victim failing to use any individual protective equipment, poor labor protection, and lack of authorities’ control over how the safety rules were obeyed. The plant’s management was explained that the existing production control over the safety of loading and off-loading